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stern
Synonyms and Antonyms of stern
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given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
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harsh and threatening in manner or appearance
bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic
adamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinching
fixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
black, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surly
brooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber (or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty
Synonym Discussion of stern
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- severe military discipline
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- stern arbiters of public morality
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- living an austere life in the country
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- the ascetic life of the monks
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